DoA and FoW with heroes

I did it. Don't ask how many tries, but I did it.

Foundry HM Complete, caster primary with no save yourselves. The time is a bit.. off, because I had to go pick up my girlfriend midway through. It was closer to an hour and a half, with a half hour alone spent repeatedly attempting to kill the Fury. I did use some DP Remover (some four leaf clovers), because I didn't feel like going through another attempt once I started gathering some DP, but I didn't use any other cons.



Jeydra - I took it as a personal challenge (not an unfriendly one, or a personal challenge from you, but a personal challenge to myself) to match and complete this in HM. I satisfied myself. I may or may not take on the UW - chances are against it, because I need to relax a bit and complete some titles. I've learned quite a bit about micro and hero build design attempting to do all of this.

All of this is making me want to go get the rest of my pve skills, too. I have a feeling that EVAS would be a nice addition. The pve skills I have weren't worth using AP.

I do believe the rest of the DoA will go down fairly readily, but if I've managed the hardest area, I'll probably be content with myself. Otherwise, my guild and I are learning trenchway to satisfy all my DoA HM needs.

Thanks for the motivation!

As a complete newbie to the DoA, after much hair-tearing (and being horribly jealous of Save Yourselves!) and 16 wipes (10 on the Fury -_-) and 12 dramatic build overhauls, I've finally managed to 7 Hero the Foundry on NM.

The only consumable used was a cupcake since 1) I'm cheap and 2) the wiki was talking about pulling the Fury, but no matter what the heck I do, every time I hit anything in that spawn with a longbow, I get the train from hell chasing me for way more than 2 aggro bubbles - the cupcake run speed didn't help one bit. I have *no* idea how to split that group. Why the heck is this area so much more difficult than the rest of the DoA?



Random notes:The "rooms" aren't really a problem, most wipes are caused by the Fury or bad flagging. I can clear up to the Fury without any flagging whatsoever, but had 9 consecutive failures on the Fury thanks to meteor/cry of frustration lockdown. I think it might be quite impossible to do this without flag micro (unless you have Save Yourselves, maybe?). Stupid Meteor/Rage Titans/Mesmers. Keystone does a LOT more damage than E-surge Dom here (Also using it because in the future, I might want to try the City in HM and I have no idea how to do it beyond using nothing but Keystone Mesmers or adrenaline). Hero AI use of Overload is absolutely fantastic. Putrid Explosion makes clearing this place MUCH faster. Produced better results than Feast of Corruption. BiP is fine (Even in energy efficient builds), you naysayers can go stick your head in a duck. Pain Inverter sucks with Mesway. Technobabble is the way to go. (PI did absolutely nothing in that screenshot) Fevered Dreams is kind of bad here (bad damage, slow to start up, can't use Ash Blast cause of Stun Immunity and Bsurge is expensive and you want to spike things before they enragex3 and start wiping you). If you really NEED daze, Technobabble + Extend Condition tab spam works better here, but has no DPS to speak of (Although it does amusing things with "They're on Fire!"). Psychic Instability seems really really good here. Tried it and had a really smooth run until the Fury where I wiped (yet again), thanks to my being a lazy bum that needs to learntoflag. Energy Surge is quite horribly overrated. I love Wandering Eye. I hate the Fury and I'm never going back once I get 15 gemstones.
I'd refine the build some more, but since I got my clear, loathe this place, and still have a few PvE titles to max, I'm going back to trying retarded-but-fun builds in the DoA. I'll leave the power-PvE to the experts.

edit: Well, after reading the above post (good job, btw!) I was kind of curious about HM Foundry, so I took my heroes out to try the first four rooms - (No flagging! Too lazy!) to see if my above comments were still valid in HM - they really weren't that much more difficult, so I still think E-Surge is overrated for an elite slot. I have no desire to spend another hour clearing to the @#$@# Fury though. (too many trash pulls!)

Might be a good idea to stick in Spiritual Pain instead of the inspiration interrupts (too many are going unused)